Language Quote by Ursula K. Le Guin

If something inside of you is real, we will probably find it interesting, and it will probably be universal. So you must risk placing…

— Anne Lamott

The responsibility of the writer as a moral agent is to try to bring the truth about matters of human significance to an audience…

— Noam Chomsky

“Write straight into the emotional center of things. Write toward vulnerability. Don’t worry about appearing sentimental. Worry about being unavailable; worry about being absent…

— Anne Lamott

Tell the truth as you understand it. If you're a writer, you have a moral obligation to do this. And it is a revolutionary…

— Anne Lamott

In the greatest fiction, the writer's moral sense coincides with his dramatic sense, and I see no way for it to do this unless…

— Flannery O'Connor

“You must risk placing real emotion at the center of your work. Write straight into the emotional center of things. Write toward vulnerability. Tell…

— Anne Lamott

On an occasion of this kind it becomes more than a moral duty to speak one's mind. It becomes a pleasure.

— Oscar Wilde

The moral duty of man consists of imitatingthe moral goodness and beneficence of God,manifested in the creation, toward all His creatures.

— Thomas Paine

The interests of a nation, when well understood, will be found to coincide with their moral duties.

— Thomas Jefferson

Self-love . . . is the sole antagonist of virtue, leading us constantly by our propensities to self-gratification in violation of our moral duties to others.

— Thomas Jefferson

I think coercive taxation is theft, and government has a moral duty to keep it to a minimum.

— William Weld

For my part, let me be clear: protecting those in society most at risk of harm, those crushed at the bottom of the heap,…

— Amber Rudd